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NASA Space Apps Challenge, the world’s largest hackathon, will return to Romania on November 14-15, with simultaneous events in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca. Registration for the 48-hour international event is open until November 13. Under the theme The Next Frontier!, participants will form teams of up to six members and use NASA’s open data to develop…

IKEA will open its first Plan and Order Point in Iași on Monday, August 31. Located in Egros Shopping Center, the studio will be the retailer’s sixth such facility in Romania. The location will offer personalized planning services for kitchens, wardrobes, and storage solutions. Customers will be able to work individually with IKEA specialists to…

Romania’s cybersecurity market could grow from an estimated EUR 190 million in 2025 to more than EUR 300 million by 2030, according to a study by AI Board. The projected expansion, at an annual rate of around 10%, is expected to be driven by increasingly frequent cyberattacks, new compliance requirements, and continued investment in digitalization.…

Leader of Romania’s reformist party USR, Dominic Fritz, criticised Liberal party (PNL) for the vote on the Integrity Agency (ANI) Law – which strips him of Timisoara mayoral seat – and said his party’s alliance with PNL is circumstantial, a coalition of two reasonable centrist parties aimed at opposing both the far-right extremism (AUR) and…

Romanian president Nicusor Dan, in a press conference at Chișinău on August 27, announced that new consultations with the parties on nominating a new prime minister will follow on September 1, and he assured that “we will find a majority for a stable government.” He refused to elaborate on the source of his optimism, however.…

Romanian president Nicușor Dan said Europe must assume a greater share of responsibility for its own defence while reaffirming Romania’s commitment to strengthening NATO’s eastern flank, in an opinion article published by Fox News on August 27. Dan said Romania was not asking the United States to do more for its defence, but was prepared…

A merchant ship caught fire on the evening of August 27 in the Black Sea, in Romania’s exclusive economic zone, and the crew of 12 sailors was rescued by border police officers from the Coast Guard and by another merchant ship in the area, News.ro announced. The rescue operation was difficult because of the large…

Romania’s Ministry of Energy has approved seven projects with a total investment value of approximately EUR 290 million under a programme supporting the modernisation of industrial installations and improvements in energy efficiency, the ministry said on August 26. The projects will receive almost EUR 109 million in state grants. The projects were selected under the…

Interim prime minister Ilie Bolojan warned that projects financed through the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) that are not completed by the end of 2026 could require beneficiaries to return funds already received. More than 15,000 projects are being financed under Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), of which 4,500 had not been…

Romanian real estate developer One United Properties (BVB: ONE) has halted the sale process for its One Tower office building in Bucharest after failing to find a buyer willing to meet its target price, co-founder Victor Căpitanu said on August 27, as reported by Ziarul Financiar. “For now, there is no sale of One Tower.…